39 Notable alumni of Athens School of Fine Arts
Updated: May 31, 2026 EliteDegrees
Athens School of Fine Arts is ranked #5,268 in the world and #27 in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from Athens School of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Athens School of Fine Arts won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Yannis Poulakas
1863-1942 (aged 79)
painter
iconographer
Yiannis Poulakas was a Greek painter and scenographer. Poulakas was professionally concerned primarily with scenography and secondarily with painting.
2. Yannis Stavrou
1948-. (aged 78)
painter
Yannis Stavrou is a contemporary Greek artist, painter.
3. Eleni Paschalidou Zongolopoulou
1909-1991 (aged 82)
painter
Eleni Zongolopoulou was a Greek painter. During her artistic career she followed the movements of Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Abstract art. She was wife of the sculptor George Zongolopoulos.
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4. Ioannis Oikonomou
1860-1931 (aged 71)
painter
Ioannis Oikonomou was a Greek painter, xylographer, engraver and amateur athlete.
5. Dimitrios Geraniotis
1871-1966 (aged 95)
painter
Dimitrios Geraniotis was a Greek portrait painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
6. Ioannis Zacharias
1845-1873 (aged 28)
painter
Ioannis Zacharias was a Greek painter.
7. Yiannis Psychopedis
1945-. (aged 81)
painter
university teacher
Υiannis Psychopedis is one of the main Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism, an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968. The May 68 student rebellions in France, the Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia, and the coup d'état establishing the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 were catalysts for this group.
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8. Spiros Pizanis
1870-1927 (aged 57)
painter
Spiros Pizanis (Greek: Σπύρος Πιζάνης; (1870, Corfu - 1927, Rome) was a Greek painter; one of their first Impressionists.
9. Giorgos Sikeliotis
1917-1984 (aged 67)
costume designer
painter
engraver
scenographer
Giorgos Sikeliotis was a Greek painter and engraver. He is considered a member of the "Generation of the '30s".
10. Ioannis Kossos
1822-1875 (aged 53)
sculptor
Ioannis Kossos was a Greek sculptor of the 19th century. Born in Tripoli, he later studied in Athens and Florence. His work includes several statues and busts in Athens, Patras and other Greek cities.
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11. Georgios Prokopiou
1876-1940 (aged 64)
documentary filmmaker
painter
photographer
Georgios Prokopiou was a Greek war artist, photographer and documentary film maker. He also served as court painter to Emperor Menelik II and was a recipient of the Greek Military Cross.
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12. Thanasis Apartis
1899-1972 (aged 73)
sculptor
Athanase Apartis was a Greek sculptor. His busts of famous people and monumental works stand in many public places in Greece.
13. Dimitar Dobrovich
1816-1905 (aged 89)
painter
Dimitar Georgiev Dobrovich was the first academically-trained Bulgarian painter and a participant in the revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states.
14. Spiridon Vikatos
1878-1960 (aged 82)
university teacher
painter
artist
Spyridon or Spyros Vikatos was a Greek painter and professor. He is considered one of the later members of the Munich School.
15. John Christoforou
1921-2014 (aged 93)
painter
John Christoforou was a British painter of Greek heritage. He spent his childhood in Greece, but returned to England in 1938. With the outbreak of the war, he joined the Royal Air Force where he flew missions in the Far East.
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16. Nikolaos Vokos
1854-1902 (aged 48)
painter
sculptor
Nikolaos Vokos was a Greek painter of the Munich School art movement.
17. Nikolaos Lytras
1883-1927 (aged 44)
painter
Nikolaos Lytras was a Greek modernist painter who specialized in portraits, still-lifes and landscapes.
18. George Bouzianis
1885-1959 (aged 74)
painter
George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.
19. Spiros Vassiliou
1903-1985 (aged 82)
painter
Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the United States, and Canada.
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20. Ioannis Altamouras
1852-1878 (aged 26)
painter
marine artist
Ioannis Altamouras was a Greek painter of the 19th century famous for his paintings of seascapes. Another notable seascape painter was Konstantinos Volanakis.
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21. Georgios Roilos
1867-1928 (aged 61)
painter
university teacher
Georgios Roilos was one of the most important and influential Greek painters of the late 19th-early 20th century. He belonged to the so-called "Munich School". His major works include historical topics, portraits, and scenes of everyday life. One of his most famous paintings is “The Poets”, which depicts some of the most important representatives of the New Athenian school of...
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22. Périclès Pantazis
1849-1884 (aged 35)
painter
Périclès Pantazis was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century who gained a great reputation as an artist initially in Belgium.
23. Thodoros Papayiannis
1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher
sculptor
Theodoros Papagiannis is a Greek sculptor. His work is held by many collections and stands in public places in Greece and elsewhere, including his sculpture "The Runners" at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
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24. Georgios Bonanos
1863-1940 (aged 77)
sculptor
Georgios Bonanos was a Greek sculptor.
25. Giorgos Zongolopoulos
1903-2004 (aged 101)
sculptor
George Zongolopoulos was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect. Zongolopoulos, who was often called the “eternal teenager” was a representative of the so-called “Generation of 1930s” while his work extends from the 1920s until his late life.
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26. Memos Makris
1913-1993 (aged 80)
sculptor
Memos Makris was a prominent Greek sculptor. He spent his early childhood in Patras but his family moved to Athens in 1919. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and soon became involved in the artistic and cultural life of the 1930s. During the German Occupation Makris joined the National Resistance. After the liberation he continued his studies...
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27. Yannis Tsarouchis
1910-1989 (aged 79)
theatrical director
painter
costume designer
illustrator
scenographer
Yannis Tsarouchis was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males.
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28. Dimitris Papaioannou
1964-. (aged 62)
illustrator
costume designer
penciller
director
scenographer
Dimitris Papaioannou is an Athenian born in 21 June 1964 who emerged from the Greek underground art scene as a defining figure. Starting as a comics creator, he became a director, choreographer, performer, and designer of sets, costumes, and lighting.
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29. Nikos Engonopoulos
1907-1985 (aged 78)
painter
costume designer
writer
scenographer
poet
Nikos Engonopoulos was a Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays.
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30. Thanos Leivaditis
1934-2005 (aged 71)
actor
screenwriter
Thanos Leivaditis was a Greek actor and screenwriter. He studied drawing at the Athens School of Fine Arts (Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών, Scholi Kalon Technon), at the workshop class of the professor Yiannis Moralis.
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31. Alekos Fassianos
1935-2022 (aged 87)
painter
lithographer
writer
Alekos Fassianos was a renowned Greek painter. He gained recognition for his distinctive style, which was characterized by immediacy and a deliberate departure from standardized painting techniques.
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32. Natalia Mela
1923-2019 (aged 96)
sculptor
Natalia Mela was a Greek sculptor. She was the granddaughter of the fighter of the Macedonian Struggle Pavlos Melas and wife of architect Aris Konstantinidis.
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33. Vangelis
1943-2022 (aged 79)
painter
film score composer
composer
keyboardist
musician
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the...
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34. Yannis Kounellis
1936-2017 (aged 81)
university teacher
scenographer
painter
sculptor
video artist
Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
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35. Nikiforos Lytras
1832-1904 (aged 72)
academic
painter
Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He...
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36. Georgios Jakobides
1853-1932 (aged 79)
painter
medalist
university teacher
curator
Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
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37. Yannoulis Chalepas
1851-1938 (aged 87)
sculptor
Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and a significant figure of Modern Greek art.
38. Nikolaos Gyzis
1842-1901 (aged 59)
university teacher
teacher
painter
art educator
visual artist
Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement.
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39. Giorgio de Chirico
1888-1978 (aged 90)
scenographer
jewelry designer
writer
painter
sculptor
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and...
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